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Posts tagged with 'sleuthing' at MetaFilter.Wed, 07 May 2014 03:31:23 -0800Wed, 07 May 2014 03:31:23 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60... the internet is totally bonkershttp://www.metafilter.com/138900/the%2Dinternet%2Dis%2Dtotally%2Dbonkers
<a href="http://www.3news.co.nz/Homophobia-and-competitive-tickling/tabid/418/articleID/343206/Default.aspx">Homophobia and competitive tickling.</a> Journalist<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farrier"> David Farrier</a> explores the "quite weird" world of Competitive Reality Endurance Tickling. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138900Wed, 07 May 2014 03:31:23 -0800CatchThe Canon Dronehttp://www.metafilter.com/126135/The%2DCanon%2DDrone
<a href="http://onevisiblefuture.tumblr.com/post/44865882761/i-have-something-of-an-obsession-with-the-image">We've all seen it.</a> The off-white UAV is seen side on, nose tilted slightly down, a stubby missile caught at the moment of launch beneath it, a blue and grey landscape of treeless mountains behind it. There's no motion blur and none of the markings on the aircraft have been obfuscated. It's a perfect shot. Except for one or two details. The image is <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=drone&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=RQA6UdfKL7Gw7Ab7hICwBg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=672&sei=qYhIUczWNuiWiQL_jYDgDQ">Google's #1 image search result for "drone."</a>
Artist <a href="http://booktwo.org/">James Bridle</a> posts on the topic of drones at his Tumblr, <a href="http://onevisiblefuture.tumblr.com/">One Visible Future</a>, and his familiarity with the subject led him to analyze the markings on the craft. His conclusion? As the drone pictured is marked as though it were an aircraft that entered service in 1985 and displays the insignia of a New York State National Air Guard unit, it's a fake.
<a href="https://twitter.com/alexismadrigal/status/314026396743790592">He posted a link on Twitter this morning</a>, and in a half-hour <a href="http://onevisiblefuture.tumblr.com/post/45758581694/an-update-on-the-canon-drone-thanks-to-twitter">posted that the original artist had been found.</a>
via, and h/t to, MeFi's own <a href="https://twitter.com/brownpau">@brownpau</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.126135Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:01:04 -0800mwhybark